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Design creativity: harnessing your inner genius
I am typing this as I listen to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. I love all kinds of music but can only work whilst listening to jazz and baroque. Researchers have show that baroque music creates a mentally stimulating environment in which … Continue reading
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Tagged bach, campbell, carl jung, collective, creativity, Design, douglas adams, joseph campbell, jung, unconsciousness
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Design using function, behaviour, structure
Last month, at the Architectural Association, Bill Hillier described how English Heritage often want to reinstate the paths and roads of the historic sites they are trying to preserve. Hillier argued that these sites need new pathways as the way … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, bill hillier, campbell, Design, english heritage, function, jung, space syntax, structural monitoring, structure
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Using patterns to shape our world
In the 1990s, Erich Gamma changed the way I thought about software engineering forever! Gamma visited the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where I was a PhD student, in order to give a seminar on design patterns. The idea of … Continue reading